After Bing Crosby's long-term Decca Records contract was up, he signed many short-term contracts with a wide variety of labels. These included many popular labels such as Reprise, RCA, Verve, Decca (again), United Artists, Capitol and more. [1]
After Bing Crosby's long-term Decca Records contract was up, he signed many short-term contracts with a wide variety of labels. These included many popular labels such as Reprise, RCA, Verve, Decca (again), United Artists, Capitol and more. [1]
Bing recorded the film scores for Anything Goes in late February. [3] Bing then recorded Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around for Decca in mid to late April. [4]
Bing recorded the Bing with a Beat LP in late February along with Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band. [7] [8]
In April, Bing read the short stories: Jack B. Nimble – A Mother Goose Fantasy, A Christmas Story - An Axe, An Apple and a Buckskin Jacket, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Never Be Afraid (which was a musical version of "The Emperor's New Clothes")
In July and August, Bing and Rosemary Clooney recorded the album Fancy Meeting You Here.
In July 1959, Bing and Rosemary got together again for the album How the West Was Won. This was recorded for Bing Crosby's own company, Project Records, and was released by RCA Victor Records
This soundtrack album Say One for Me was released by Columbia.
Join Bing and Sing Along was recorded in December 1959. [10]
The El Señor Bing album was recorded in June 1960 for Project Records and released by MGM Records.
Another album released by MGM was Bing & Satchmo recorded with Louis Armstrong in June 1960.
101 Gang Songs was recorded for Project Records and released by Warner Bros.
Bing's album Holiday in Europe was recorded for Project Records and released by Decca.
The soundtrack album The Road to Hong Kong was issued by Liberty.
Another singalong type album On the Happy Side.
I Wish You a Merry Christmas. Bing sang Christmas favorites.
Contributed to the Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre albums.
Return to Paradise Islands. An album of Hawaiian themed songs.
Bing Crosby Sings the Great Country Hits. Country and western songs.
America, I Hear You Singing. A a collection of patriotic songs that were recorded with Frank Sinatra.
Robin and the 7 Hoods. The score from the film of the same name.
12 Songs of Christmas. Christmas songs with Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians.
That Travelin' Two-Beat was another album with Rosemary Clooney.
Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love. Twelve tracks recorded for a mail order firm.
Thoroughly Modern Bing. Bing's first album for this label.
Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love (1968 version). Another record set for Longines, this time with 36 Crosby vocals.
Hey Jude / Hey Bing!. An album of contemporary songs recorded with Jimmy Bowen.
Goldilocks. The soundtrack from the TV film starring Bing Crosby and his family.
A Time to Be Jolly. Christmas themed songs recorded for Sonny Burke's record company.
Bing 'n' Basie. Another album for Daybreak Records with Count Basie.
A Southern Memoir. Recorded by Bing Crosby at his own expense and leased to the English branch of Decca who issued it on Decca's London label.
Bingo Viejo. Another album recorded by Bing Crosby at his own expense and leased to Decca. He called this his 'Mexican' album.
That's What Life Is All About. The first album for Ken Barnes.
A Couple of Song and Dance Men. Another one for Ken Barnes, this time with Fred Astaire.
Tom Sawyer. A reading by Bing Crosby of an abridged version of Mark Twain’s classic story The Adventures of Tom Sawyer spread over a 3-LP set.
At My Time of Life. Another Ken Barnes production. Mainly show tunes.
Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium. Live recording of the show put on by Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Kathryn Crosby and Ted Rogers at the London Palladium from June 21 to July 4, 1976. Produced by Ken Barnes.
Feels Good, Feels Right. Recorded with Alan Cohen in London.
Beautiful Memories. Another Ken Barnes production.
Seasons. Bing's last album. Again produced by Ken Barnes.
Harry "Sweets" Edison was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. His most important contribution was as a Hollywood studio musician, whose muted trumpet can be heard backing singers, most notably Frank Sinatra.
Edward William May Jr. was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for The Green Hornet (1966), The Mod Squad (1968), Batman, and Naked City (1960). He collaborated on films such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return, among others.
Sisters is a popular song written by Irving Berlin in 1954, best known from the 1954 film White Christmas.
"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" is a popular song with music by Hoagy Carmichael and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally planned to feature it in a Paramount film written for Betty Hutton that never took off, which was to be called The Mack Sennett Girl. The song was buried in Paramount's files until it was rediscovered and then used in the 1951 film Here Comes the Groom and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
"One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" is a song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the movie musical The Sky's the Limit (1943) and first performed in the film by Fred Astaire.
White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, "White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn.
"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" is the opening song from the musical Oklahoma!, which premiered on Broadway in 1943. It was written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The leading male character in Oklahoma!, Curly McLain, sings the song at the beginning of the first scene of the musical. The refrain runs: "Oh, what a beautiful mornin'! / Oh, what a beautiful day! / I've got a beautiful feelin' / Ev'rythin's goin' my way." Curly's "brimming optimism is perfectly captured by Rodgers' ebullient music and Hammerstein's buoyant pastoral lyrics."
The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16 to 18 piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the Big Band era itself and the death of Basie in 1984. It continues under the direction of trumpeter Scotty Barnhart.
"P.S. I Love You" is a popular song with music by Gordon Jenkins and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. published in 1934.
"Too Marvelous for Words" is a popular song written in 1937. Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics for music composed by Richard Whiting. It was introduced by Wini Shaw and Ross Alexander in the 1937 Warner Brothers film Ready, Willing and Able, as well as used for a production number in a musical revue on Broadway. The song has become a pop and jazz standard and has been recorded by many artists.
"Pennies from Heaven" is a 1936 American popular song with music by Arthur Johnston and lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was introduced by Bing Crosby with Georgie Stoll and his Orchestra in the 1936 film of the same name.
Louis Isidore "Buddy" Bregman was an American arranger and conductor.
Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings was Bing Crosby's sixth LP, his first album for Verve, recorded and released in a mono format in 1956.
That Travelin' Two-Beat is a duet album by Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney recorded in 1964 and released on Capitol Records in 1965.
Milt Bernhart was a West Coast jazz trombonist who worked with Stan Kenton, Frank Sinatra, and others. He supplied the solo in the middle of Sinatra's 1956 recording of I've Got You Under My Skin conducted by Nelson Riddle.
"I Wished on the Moon" is a song composed by Ralph Rainger, with lyrics by Dorothy Parker. Bing Crosby sang the song in The Big Broadcast of 1936.
"More Than You Know" is a popular song, composed by Vincent Youmans with lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu. The song was published in 1929.
Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas is an album with songs from the 1954 movie, White Christmas. Among the featured artists are Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, and Trudy Stevens, with Peggy Lee, who was not in the movie, singing some parts. It is one of the last 78 rpm albums Decca produced.
Singer Rosemary Clooney is known for many songs, including "Come On-a My House", "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House". This is a partial discography.
This is a list of Bing Crosby songs he recorded twice or more during his career, excluding all of the 1954 re-recordings for Bing: A Musical Autobiography.
